Alien ‘flying spaghetti monster’ noticed in underwater backyard fabricated from sponge

The world of the deep sea has been unearthed by a team of oceanographers in astonishing new pictures.

While trawling the depths of the Nazca Ridge, about 900 miles off the coast of Chile, the group of scientists made some eye-catching discoveries.

One of these was an underwater mountain nearly two miles tall, which the team discovered was part of a larger range of seamounts. Underneath this seamount was a cartoonish world of alien sea creatures mapped out by the scientists’ underwater robot.

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The Schmidt Ocean Institute, which led the team of explorers, issued a press release announcing the team had found sponge gardens and ancient corals.

There was a “pristine coral garden” roughly the size of three tennis courts, providing “shelter for an array of organisms such as rockfish, brittle stars, and king crabs.”

The robot also papped the first ever footage of the rare ‘Promachoteuthis squid’ which until now has only ever been seen dead. Another first was the ‘Casper octopus’ – the first time the species has been spotted in the southern Pacific.

One of the most remarkable sightings was that of the very elusive “Bathyphysa siphonophores” also known as “flying spaghetti monsters”.

This strange marine animal is already known by Daily Star readers as the figurehead of a bonkers religion where the devotees wear colanders on their heads and are determined to continue the fight to have it recognised formally by authorities around the world.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster insists it has been around for centuries but has spent most of that time underground – only recently popping up publicly to join the “mainstream”.

Members of the church are called Pastafarians and it claims to have “millions, if not thousands” of devout followers around the world, who subscribe to its wacky ways. The church insists that it “is widely considered a legitimate religion, even by its opponents – mostly fundamentalist Christians, who have accepted that our God has larger balls than theirs”.

“Prior to Schmidt Ocean Institute’s expeditions this year, 1,019 species were known to live in this portion of the Pacific Ocean. The number now exceeds 1,300 and is growing,” said the release.

“The records will be sent to the Ocean Census, an international, collaborative alliance led by the Nippon Foundation and Nekton to accelerate the discovery and protection of ocean life.”